The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOne can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can’t fly away.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?
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